Crossword for Thu, 4/Nov/2010

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Across
1: Smallest small car, quite silent (7)

4: Film after set back, is more sensitive (7)

7: I turn, lost, in Italian city (5)

9: Little jumpers are almost always gold. (9)

11: Cook small fish. (3)

12: Ruby ran off to marry after a couple of events came to light again (11)

13: Loudly certain Woodbridges a near-certainty (5,4)

16: Instrument on top of tree or shrub (5)

17: Soldier shelled in song from the past (5)

19: Loveless sensations resort?! (9)

21: Does the wandering hero duly hostess perplex? (7)

23: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

25: I drag Mrs. A off to Carnival (5,4)

26: An actor with a minor role may be superior (5)

27: Finest tree house exhibits gist of problem (7)

28: Abnormally mintier in the meantime (7)
Down
1: Witticism provided theme (5)

2: Curate ran immediately back inside tower (7)

3: Montana contract cut back (5)

4: Peg's put on jeans, and airs (9)

5: Mark of a wound allowed to flow red (7)

6: Some doctors oust head of Johnson and Johnson? (9)

8: Man, what an avant-garde US artist! (3)

10: Mischievous child learning to beg (7)

13: Dons swarm all around fencer (9)

14: Senior citizen losing 500 toddlers at sea (7)

15: Add pantry to make dude! (9)

18: Hard to comprehend English version if scholars used Latin edition from the South initially (7)

20: Put a bit of petrol in Bug and Probe (7)

22: Served raw, across keeps us hidden within. (5)

23: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

24: Reprimand about loss of kingdom (5)




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